To feel bad for Helen Flanagan here?

Yes, it's awful

I’d take the no maintenance with a pinch of salt. There will be a claim under pt 1 children’s Act where parent is a high earner. It’s a negotiation then ultimately court decision.
So he might be saying I’ll give you £500,000 for a house in your name, school fees and csa level maintenance. She might want 6 bed, bills paid, school fees and additional maintenance.

And this is why people who say marriage is just a piece of paper or doesn’t matter, are wrong.

That’s not how it works legally. He had no legal relationship with her. Never had any legal obligation to financially support her.
If you want a legal relationship then you need to marry or civil partnership. They were adults and chose not to.

Surely he has no way to make her forgo child support if she’s looking after the children- she’d just go to CSA?

To be fair maybe these interviews are paying for her deposit and she doesn’t have anything to sell apart from this story

She was a fool to choose to be a stay at home mum when they weren’t married it’s his house he wants to sell it he has a right to do that and if she has to go out to work aww diddums millions of women have to go out to work to provide for their kids what makes her so special that she shouldn’t have to do anything to provide for them and he should pay for everything. He’s under no legal obligation to provide for his ex girlfriend as well as 3 kids he only needs to provide for them and he’s not trying to make them homeless he just wants them to move to somewhere smaller and more affordable for him which is fair enough.

I don't know the whole background but they are not doing 50/50 they live at opposite ends of the country. He IMO should pay enough support for the kids to have a similar life style to what they would have had if their parents had remained together. As far as she is concerned, it's not like she can go and work in M&S, I hope she gets some decent opportunities, tricky working long hours with 3 kids hope she has good support too.

If I were her I'd take up the offer to buy her a house! There are worse ways to emerge from a relationship where you had multiple children, gave up work and didn't have the wit to make marriage a condition of all this. A four bed fully paid off property is nothing to sniff at.

I don’t get why you think he should fund Helen’s lifestyle. Yes he wants to sell the house but he’s said he’d pay for a smaller one so not like he’s cutting all financial support & as a follower of his on social media he has his children regularly too, in fact I read somewhere the oldest actually wants to live with her dad.

many other single mums don’t get the luxury of having a house and all experiences covered by their children’s dad so why should he any different.

What’s the point in saying it’s a job in the context of someone who needs to earn money?

how do parents earn money if they already have a job?

You are missing point she wasn’t married Op.
Total chalk and cheese between legal positions.

There is probably a schedule 1 Children’s Act claim being negotiated. It sounds like he’s currently paying for housing the children and has offered to buy her a property as part of a settlement so she can house them but this will result in less ongoing maintenance.
She went to private school so perhaps her parents can assist if he’s only willing to fund a 4 bed and she wants to stay in a 6 bed. 4 bed is a bedroom per child.
Whilst he’s obviously been higher earning in past he’s not a particularly high earner now.
She’s mad to refuse a house in her name. If she stays as his guest in the 6 bed house one day when children are adults she’ll need to move out and will be in her 50s starting from scratch on housing ladder.
The comment about her adding value to his house. Don’t add value to someone else’s property. In limited circumstances you can try and claim a beneficial interest but it’s fraught with difficulty and expensive legally.

I don’t understand why you think she should be a kept woman by her ex-boyfriend?
Where’s the independence and integrity of paying your own way?

I don't know the ins and outs of it all but Helen didn't marry Scott. He has zero obligations to support Helen; his only obligation is to his children. If the house she's been living in, is owned by Scott (and not Helen), then he's within his rights to ask her to move out. If the property is jointly owned, and he's currently footing the bills because Helen can't, then the house needs to be sold, if she can't buy him out. Unfortunately, this isn't any different to a normal run of the mill couple, who've separated.

Yes, she will need to find another property suitable for herself and the three children to live in. Yes, she will need to work to pay her bills. Hopefully Scott is paying Helen child support (which presumably will be substantial given he's a footballer, even if it's a lower league).

Helen is an actor, which doesn't give a person job security. Finances can be unpredictable. Actors do have to take 'normal work' to support themselves. Bills don't pay themselves, and she can't expect Scott to financially support her.

Not a job that, you know, pays money. Like you need for you monthly mortgage payment or rent

I hope she has grown up since her time on I am a celeb as she seemed really narcissistic when she was on that !